After posting AL’s best record, Rangers’ exit ‘hurts’

TORONTO — Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre has one goal left in his career, and that is to win the World Series. It’s not going to happen this year for Beltre or the Rangers after a 7-6 loss in 10 innings to the Blue Jays in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Sunday night at Rogers Centre.

“For me, it hurts,” Beltre said. “I knew we had a good team, and we came up short. We put the work in and had the desire, but we got cold at the worst moment and couldn’t find a way to beat them. It’s tough to lose three in a row, especially the way we played during the regular season.”

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The Rangers went an AL-best 95-67 during the regular season and would’ve had home-field advantage through the World Series, but it’s the Blue Jays who advanced to the AL Championship Series with a three-game sweep of the ALDS. The Rangers are headed back to Texas to face a long offseason.

“We go home,” manager Jeff Banister said. “It doesn’t feel good for us [coaches], it doesn’t feel good for those players. I’m just as disappointed as anyone in that clubhouse. It’s a challenge, because when you get in these things and you’re in a playoff situation, they end so abruptly. There are no real words to ease the feelings at all.”

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